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In 1976, the revolutionary singer-songwriter LAURA NYRO returned from self-imposed exile. But her comeback confounded expectations, shifting away from the impassioned intimacies of her early albums to embrace more radical perspectives. Fifty years on, Nyro’s collaborators revisit her striking second act. “She was a hip American from the Bronx,” one friend and producer tells Rob Hughes. “But her soul was old.”

Late stories of a self-styled ‘arguer with the world’

The platinum blonde in British history

Most poets have had the experience of being inspired by a painting, prompting them to write a new poem to narrate or comment on the picture. A Norfolk group goes one step further, engineering the matc

The Ear of the Beholder Huon Mallalieu (Thomas ...